\chapter{Origin}

In the beginning there was Ud (\ref{sec:tgp:ud}), the greater power of the beginning of all things. Ud existed in a void, endless in all directions---spacial, temporal, and spiritual.

First Ud created three children: Sofin (\ref{sec:tgp:sofin}), Tek (\ref{sec:tgp:tek}), and Enia (\ref{sec:tgp:enia}).

To Sofin, Ud gave power over space. The ability to create great distances, spawn landmasses, and create the universe. But the cosmos were static.

To Tek, Ud gave power over time. The ability to set things in motion and prevent stagnation, to see Sofin's creations come to life and move and change. But the cosmos were without purpose.

To Enia, Ud gave power over spirit. The ability to let all beings connect and interact with one another, to form relationships and emotion. The cosmos were complete.

Ud's children's work was flourishing, and Ud saw a problem. The children were lazy, they had done what they set out and now did nothing. Ud created a fourth child: Kaligda (\ref{sec:tgp:kaligda}).

To Kaligda, Ud gave the power to end all things. To see all of the cosmos end. To see the work of Ud, Sofin, Tek, and Enia, crumble to ash and fade into the void from which they came.

Kalida's power now a looming threat, the children set to work once more, seeking to fill the cosmos with more life, and to achieve as much as possible before their eventual end.

In this, the children of Ud realised they could not perfect their masterwork alone. They themselves brought forth children: The Gods.

The Children of Ud instructed The Gods to fill their cosmos with more complex life, creating beings that could change and drive progress without the intervention of the Great Powers.

First to act was the god Munn. He travelled throughout the stars and filled the cosmos with a race made in his own image: Mankind. Munn (\ref{sec:gods:munn}) would call himself the god of fortification and protection, and would put these values in his children who would build great buildings and keeps to live in.

The god Aialos (\ref{sec:gods:aialos}) saw Munn's children destroying the nature upon the worlds made by Sofin, and so created the Wyrds to replenish it. Later Aialos would create the Elves to protect it, and the Wyrds would perish. Aialos proclaimed herself the god of nature.

The god Janus (\ref{sec:gods:janus}) took inspiration from Munn, and Aialos. Liking the form of Munn's children, and the desire to preserve and live alongside nature of Aialos' children. Janus created the Half-Folk, and proclaimed himself the god of compromise. He was later named the god of settling down, and of lack of ambition.

The god Rengar (\ref{sec:gods:rengar}) acted next, he saw the worlds as fixed in their patterns---Munn's children would destroy nature, Aialos' would replenish and defend it. He created the Fates to go forth into the world and remove predictability, to cause the unexpected, and drive true change. He named himself the god of randomness, and was later named the god of chaos.

The god Hama (\ref{sec:gods:hama}) acted next, she saw all of the primitive creatures of the cosmos, and wished to elevate some to the intelligence of the children of the gods. So she created all the Bestial Races, which would have to fight to distinguish themselves from the beasts they were inspired by. She named herself the god of overcoming adversity, and was later named the god of strife.

The god Rarm (\ref{sec:gods:rarm}) acted next, he saw the constant imbalance of Aialos' children against Munn's children, and had no desire for his own to partake. He saw the vast resources locked inside the planets that were untapped, and created the Dwarves to harvest them. He named himself the god of curiosity and resourcefulness.

The children of the gods filled the cosmos, and lived in peace with their creations. The great powers saw no need to be present, choosing to maintain their own domains and no more. They retired to the plane of power, further from the mortal plane than the plane of the dead.

All except Kaligda. Kaligda's power was absolute, but also not something he intended to use to it's fullest extent. To show his strength without ending his own existence, he decided to create his own children---The Demons. The gods saw the vile creations he set upon the universe and did all they could to pull them away. The gods ripped the demons from the mortal plane, resting themselves next to the plane of the dead, and the demons looming pulled beside them just before the mortal plane in the plane of chaos.

And so the planes beyond the mortal were done. First the plane of chaos---inhabited by demons. Then the plane of gods. Then the plane of the dead. Then the plane of power.

Now with the gods retired from the mortal plane, the races of the cosmos began drifting further and further from the intentions of their gods. Man became Iman. Elves became Eldrik. Half-Folk became Foul. The Fates became The Rott. The Beasts became The Rabid. The Dwarves became the Dragg.

Seeing the perversion of their races, the gods sought to preserve them without unleashing the children of Kaligda on the mortal plane. To preserve what they could, they punctured a hole from their plane, through the plane of demons, to the mortal plane. This hole came out on a small island on the planet of Anbyre, and the children of the gods on this planet did not become corrupted.